Cloud Services Developer News

SoftNAS gets a speed bump and lower costs

Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris

SoftNAS released their newest release of Cloud NAS with up to 400 percent faster cloud object storage performance. Now customers can replace expensive, aging hardware-based storage and on-premises NAS, SAN and file servers with limitless, durable and available cloud object storage. Common use cases now possible in the cloud with the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) include...

The case for developer platforms as seen by Oracle

Friday, July 07, 2017 by Richard Harris

Developers' lives are getting more challenging than ever. In the past, CIOs would give them the environment they had to work in, and operations was never part of their daily worries. But with the advent of cloud computing and broad adoption of DevOps methodologies, developers are now responsible for thinking about their environment, orchestrating containers, monitoring ...

The cloud needs a makeover survey says

Monday, July 03, 2017 by Richard Harris

Fugue, Inc., has released the results of its 2017 State of Cloud Infrastructure Operations Survey. The survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to expectations because of compliance and security concerns, unexpected downstream costs, and the glut of cloud mana...

Cloud based POS system comes to AEVI Global Marketplace

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave

At the Money20/20 event, AEVI and Epos Now has announced a partnership to bring customizable, cloud-based Point Of Sale (POS) systems to AEVI’s Global Marketplace, a B2B app store for business management. This collaboration will allow merchants to operate their POS system away from their premises, while protecting valuable data, and building a fully customizable and sca...

The holistic management of software comes to town from appOrbit

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 by Richard Harris

appOrbit, a company that looks to help accelerate digital transformation, is coming out of stealth and has unveiled its new application platform, which allows customers to automate the moving of enterprise software onto any modern infrastructure. The new platform helps speed up the movement of legacy applications like Siebel and Oracle to any cloud or container infrastr...

MongoDB Atlas is now available on top cloud platforms

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave

MongoDB has announced that MongoDB Atlas, its cloud database as a service, is now available to users on the top three public cloud platforms. Atlas has extended its availability beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, delivering on its vision of running MongoDB anywhere.  The addition of support for Azure and GCP...

VersaStack gets a new VDI and hybrid cloud capabilities

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 by Christian Hargrave

IBM has announced new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and hybrid cloud capabilities for the VersaStack converged infrastructure solution. VDI can reduce data center costs, streamline troubleshooting, and increase data security for enterprise clients managing hybrid cloud workloads.To address large-scale, high performance VDI workloads and data reduction requirement...

New enterprise cloud platform analyzes unstructured data

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 by Richard Harris

A new version of ABBYY FlexiCapture has been released. The scalable and universal enterprise capture platform enables organizations to automatically classify, extract, validate and direct business critical data from incoming customer communications and operational processes - such as customer requests, queries and transactions. Utilizing a range of automated machine lea...

Tech decision makers double down on cloud adoption says new index

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 by Christian Hargrave

The large majority of technology decision makers (84 percent) say their organizations invested in cloud services in 2016. The adoption of cloud services in 2016 is a mirror image of the planned cloud investments expressed in last year’s report. According to Insight’s 2017 Intelligent Technology Index report, “As IT leaders make decisions and arrangements to straddl...

The cloud is changing under our nose according to Packet

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 by Richard Harris

We recently sat down with Zac Smith, CEO of Packet to talk about the challenges with existing cloud and infrastructure solutions for the modern app developer. As new and emerging technologies and consumer experiences including IoT, virtual/augmented reality, mobile gaming, drones, and autonomous cars become more common, developers building apps to power these things wil...

Google releases new Cloud IoT Core service

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 by Richard Harris

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has released their new service called Google Cloud IoT Core. Cloud IoT Core makes it easy for you to securely connect your globally distributed devices to GCP, centrally manage them, and build rich applications by integrating with our data analytics services.When used as part of a broader Cloud IoT solution, Cloud IoT Core gives you access to...

Cloud-enabled attendant console at Enterprise Connect 2017

Monday, March 27, 2017 by Richard Harris

At Enterprise Connect 2017, Enghouse Interactive has announced that its TouchPoint Attendant for Microsoft Skype for Business Online is generally available. TouchPoint Attendant is an operator console solution that natively integrates into Microsoft’s Skype for Business. This makes them one of the first consoles to market with support for Skype for Business Online and O...

Conversocial Acquires HipMob

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Christian Hargrave

Conversocial announces its acquisition of HipMob, a Y-Combinator Alumnus that developed an integrated live chat platform for websites and mobile apps. The acquisition paves the way for Conversocial to extend its best-in-class digital customer engagement platform to better serve customers who prefer web-based chat channels and in-app messaging on mobile for customer care...

Cloud native apps: Perspectives from Navisite

Thursday, March 16, 2017 by Richard Harris

There is much to be considered in the complex IT ecosystems that support modern enterprises. Just like a clock, each little cog and gear plays a critical role in making sure everything is on time and in working order. Unlike a clock, however, IT environments are far less predictable and must be built with more flexible, scalable parts and pieces to function at an optima...

IBM and Cisco announced expanded solutions for VersaStack

Thursday, March 09, 2017 by Christian Hargrave

Cisco and IBM announced new solutions for VersaStack, converged infrastructure jointly developed by the two companies. VersaStack helps organizations reduce complexity and automate processes to accelerate the delivery of applications. The additional technologies incorporated in the announcement today extend VersaStack to include hybrid cloud capabilities and also take a...

Kinetica is now available on the Nimbix Cloud

Wednesday, March 08, 2017 by Michael Haynes

Kinetica, provider of the in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, has announced its real-time analytics and visualization solution is available on the Nimbix Cloud.“"Kinetica’s GPU accelerated database platform paired with Nimbix’s Cloud is a natural fit for customers looking for performance and ease-of-use from a cloud deployment," said Steve Hebert, CEO, Nimbix. “"Wit...

IBM is building a quantum computing system

Wednesday, March 08, 2017 by Richard Harris

IBM announced an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems. “IBM Q” quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will...

Oracle chats about the new data integrator cloud service

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 by Richard Harris

On February 13, Oracle unveiled Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service, Oracle’s new data integration cloud service aimed at simplifying and accelerating cross-enterprise data integration to support real-time analytics and help organizations drive better business decisions. With the increasing need for the enterprise to be effective and agile, organizations need seamless ...

Software delivery pipelines to get help from Dynatrace and Electric Cloud partnership

Thursday, February 09, 2017 by Michael Haynes

Electric Cloud, a DevOps release automation, has announced a partnership with Dynatrace enabling organizations to uncover end user, performance and operational cost impacting issues in cloud environments and enterprise software much earlier in the delivery pipeline. The new bi-directional integration is the first of its kind - enabling closed feedback loop between ...

Stop wasting the cloud!

Wednesday, February 08, 2017 by Richard Harris

Some people think about the public cloud is as a “utility” - you can buy services on demand, just like electricity, or water, or heating. Each of these utilities are consumable - as you grow you can consume more, as you shrink you can consume less. In the case of the public cloud, you are consuming IT-related infrastructure and services to build, test, and run ente...